Denmark part 2

more pics, my sisthe guards
some church
gillian,charlene,kelly
and the little mermaid

just a quickie, needa run to see a presentation.

and oh, i'm happy falling slowly won the oscar.

Denmark part 1

i figured i post sth less vulgar than my previous post, i'm still not really happy though. denmark is a nice place, home of Lego and Carlsberg. it's one expensive country though with the currency being on par with the british pound.

after getting lost finding our hostel, we headed off to the city centre. this is city hall. not exactly spectacular but still pretty decent.i took this picture in europe's longest mall street, or was it denmark or something like that. i really do like this picture, the sense of movement and the crowd and so on.
colored ,motionless one.
the one thing i didn't like about denmark was that it had factories in the east and west, spoiling such a nice view of the city. i intended on the muddy yellow color to make it have more of a polluted feel.
my dad has the almost exact same pic when he was here!!! hehe, his picture is better though :P

needa to study , laters

eduardo, get well soon. i just didn't know the seriousness of the challenge till i saw the pictures. fuck taylor for the challenge, fuck the 2 commentators who said that taylor was unlucky to be sent off and fuck mcleish to say that taylor was distraught after the challenge. the bastard basically tore of dudu's foot! get well soon dudu, and hopefully we'll win the trophy for you come season's end.

the goonerforum 'blog' has the pictures here.

S.o.S

i know there's been alot of football posts likely and it's about to continue i guess as the season heads into the climax. i was just about to write about how pleased that arsenal came away with a 2-1 away victory after a walcot brace but clichy's latest blunder made it 2-2.

the game started off brightly but after just 2 minutes, eduardo had hit by a rough challenge by taylor who was red carded. reports confirmed eduardo broke his ankle after the game was stopped for 8 minutes to carry him off and is likely to miss the season. another injury..

thinks got worse as arsenal fail to capitalize on birmingham's 10 man and mcfadden got an early goal through a free kick and it continued on like that for the rest of the first half. i was worried cause arsenal just looked so jaded but arsenal came back brightly in the 2nd half and soon after walcot scored his premiership goal off an adebayor challenge. arsenal were hitting form and hleb was running the show and actually taking a couple of shots. a few moments later, walcot ran through the defence to get his brace.

arsenal tried and should have gotten a third but adebayor was selfish on his run up and should have passed to bentdner who was free instead of shooting. hleb should have shot so near to the goal instead of trying to find a pass. but we got through till 92 minutes when a lapse of concentration by clichy made him foul panarby in the penalty box. ref said penalty, i said other wise. he got the ball first and the penalty claim was really really harsh in my opinion. mcfadden stepped up on banged it passed alumnia. gallas was furious at the 2 points lost and was actually crying on the pitch. i feel for him. we shouldnt be losing the points now. and hopefully this won't come back to haunt us.

now, we're in deep deep shit. with eduardo injured and probably missing the rest of the season, we're lacking players. the injury list is now toure,van persie,rosicky,eduardo,diaby and adebayor, senderos and a few others don't look 100% fit. we're really lacking options of strikers at the moment. out n out strikers are only ade and bentdner at the moment and i don't like pairing them up as both offer much of the same thing. walcot could step up but we're lacking people on the wings as the idiot eboue got himself suspended. it's time that we need rvp to come back and step up. i've been waiting 5 months for you and you better come back soon. this is an sos from me and probably from almost any other gooner for u to return!

i'll try to do my denmark postings, here's a pic of tivolli, denmark's themepark. too bad it was closed when we were there.

Crunch Time

the man u match last saturday was not the match that will determine our season. this week's against milan will. win and i'm confident we'll have at least a trophy come season's end. the birmingham match this sat is just as important i reckon. crunch time for arsenal and crunch time for me too.

Our unsung heroes.

it's already the 70th minute and we're still 3-0 down and eboue got a red card. i can only say that we deserved it. we weren't playing well and in the end rooney just ripped us apart. we weren't controlling the game, the defence was shaky, lehman was crap, and don't get me started on gilberto. i'm seriously wondering why he's even the captain for the brazilian team. he's slow, he's passing has been off and we can't even make a decent tackle anymore. talk about how professional he is but he's heart is just now there anymore. at least while diarra complained and moaned, he played well once called.

the one thing this game made clear though is arsenal's unsung heroes. they are our 2 full backs, clichy and sagna. i know i've been singing their praises all along this season but this game has really made it clear. both or solid in defence and while their understudies, traore and hoyte are okay in that department, they lack the prowness going forward. the forward runs, the pinpoint crosses is arsenal's best weapon.they have been sorely missed in this game and clicy in the 5-1 drubbing at totenham. when they get forward, arsenal have 6-7 men on the attack and provides the width to let our wingers drift infield.

i do have to stress that we went into this match with clichy,van persie,rosicky,denilson,diaby, alumnia injured. sagna's away for personal reasons. senderos,adebayor,flamini are half fit. i suspect fabregas isn't too well as well. manUre on the other hand have almost a perfectly fine squad.

and as i finish this article, it's now 4-0. i just hope as with the totenham game, arsenal will bounce back in the milan match midweek and against birmingham next week.

REd rED ReD : Toshiba MET401 digital audio player review

i know it's valentine's day and while everyone is out there saying i love you and this and that, i'm gonna write about my new love(my cam is still my wife, my ds my mistress, wii is my playmate)
my sony mp3 broke down on my trip to uk, just the display only (unlike my earphone *sobs*) but i decided to get a new, considering new players are pretty cheap and i just couldn't stand sony's connect stage software. it crashes half the time and the transfer rate is so slowww and while the sound quality was good, the hissing sound was pretty annoying.

so after searching around, it was between my love and an iriver clix. i initially wanted the clix but it was more expensive and after reading the comments on www.anythingbutipod.com , i dived in.

the red 4gb ver is only 12,600yen (rm 380) at amazon while other colors are a lil pricier. it's been over a month now since i bought it and i must say that my love has been impressing me by the day. the sound quality is amazing, yes better than my sony's without the hiss and without a doubt better than must junk(like the ipod) out there. online comments find the player comparable to cowon players and while i've never tried any, i don't think they're lying. sound is crisp and clear, bass is abit one the weaker side but detailed and lovely and the treble is just wonderful. it's at its best at the default setting, without none of the preset equalizers. i recommend at least a 320kbps file or even better lossless to take full advantage of the sound. i'm only using a denon ah-c551 but it just sounds wonderful. i never really liked lossless or a 320kbps bitrate due to the large size (30mb and 10mb) but it does make a difference! i bought utada's first love album recently and ripped a few songs out at lossless and songs like movin on without you and give me a reason are just amazing. eagles' hotel california at 320 was also great. the instruments were detailed and warm and had 'feel'. the only drawback is that 4gb would only get you roughly 100 lossless songs (though toshiba has just released a 8gb version)

other notable features are video playback. it doesn't support avi, only wmv only, so converting is abit of a pain but the screen is bright and nice.

interface is great and controls are good. buttons, simple and easy to use!

the only drawback is battery life at a miserable 16 hours!even an ipod now has 22+ hours... it's abit disappointing and takes time to get used to fomr my 50hr sony player but sound quality trumps battery life any dayy.

it makes me wonder why i'm building a portable amp this hols considering i don't think the sound can get any better with my current ear pieces.

edit: i forgot to include this but apparently during this year's CES(consumer electronics show) in vegas, toshiba were looking for premium earphones to pair it with their players and found SHURE. people at shure loved the player so much that they traded a few of their SE530s, their flagship earphones. one pair of those retails at around 55,000yen (rm1650) i can only dream to own it. but it does show how awesome this player really is

Parliment House & Wesminster abbey

not much to say here.. :P



i think this is the last of my london series! next up denmark, lols

while people are out protesting against the iraq war, my brain's protesting against exams..

sometimes the simplest things in life can make such a huge difference.

6 months..half a year..

i never took so long editing photos. actually it didn't take me 6 months but over the course of time, i tried to edit it and couldn't come up with something that i reasonably like.everytime i went through the bunch of pictures, i just couldn't think of how to process the pictures. i actually gave up hope,hehe until last week at least. well, i admit i've never been good at portraits and i still am not. my one aim this year is to try to improve on it :P

black and white conversion. sharp eyes :)i retained the color on this but lowered the contrast here, i think it suits the mood, especially when she's smiling.
again black and white. added abit of noise too but it's not too visible as the picture is kinda small.
this has gotta be my favourite. i actually had to crop it, something i dont do that often.b&w conversion, abit of noise here and there and upped the contrast.the mood, the movement, the expression was just nice i think.

any comments?

Changing of the Guards

on sunday, we went to buckingham palace to catch the changing of the guards. i just wasn't prepared for what i was about to see. when i was told that there would be a crowd, i thought it was like going to 100-200 people or so but i was so so wrong..i easily reached into the thousands.. maybe 2-3k?one would have thought the queen herself would be making an appearance...

i took this later in d day after the event when it wasn't as crowded. climbing up for a picture..
on patrol.. they had to keep the crowd in control.. it was just messy..
lotsa n lotsa people
and moreee
and moree
the few glimpses i caught of the guards.
here's another one.. this one ain't too bad.
could arsenal losing to totenham be a blessing in disguise? we've not been affected by it so far and even ade's and bendter's spat has become a non-issue so far. because of the win, totenham has gained confidence and the scums has been brimming in confidence and it finally paid off when they almost snatched a win from ManUre..but got a draw instead. this could be the turning point of the season and i wanna say this, thank you :)

London eye

the london eye, which i think is an overpriced 15 pounds 25minute ferris wheel....i carriage could fit well to about 20 ppl and yea, it's air conditioned but that was about it :P

with all the money i paid, they could have at least fixed the lights so that i can get a perfect circle!
zooming in and out
big ben and the parliament.

all my shots from inside the ferris wheel was either blur or had reflections.sucked :(